Guest post by Jon Vickers, IU Cinema Founding Director Emeritus. It is hard not to conjure thoughts of Francois Truffaut’s 1973 film Day for Night when first thinking about Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep from 1996. On the most obvious level, Assayas’ “circus-of-a-film-production” is led by aging director René Vidal, played expertly by Truffaut’s longtime alter-ego,… Read more »
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The Cellphone is a Spirit Board: Unresolved Readings in Assayas’s Personal Shopper
“There was a presence… I felt something I just can’t tell… it was too far.” ― Kristen Stewart as Maureen in Personal Shopper, 2016 Olivier Assayas’s 2016 film is stuck between its identity as an art film and a genre film. These distinctions are organized, with some inelegant neatness, around the dual life of Kristen Stewart’s… Read more »